From what I understand most digital cameras have a sensor where each pixel-sensor has three sub-sensors, each one with an R,G and B filter. RGB is obviously the more fundamental colour model since it ...

yesterday I bought an Canon EOS 700D with kit lens 18-55 STM. On my test images I encountered green "clouds" on dark areas. Is there a name for this kind of error and does it originate from the lens ...

The dictionary entry for the word chroma says, "the purity of a color, or its freedom from white or gray."
What does that statement mean? What is color made of? What causes color?
I was reading this ...

All of the files that comes out of my camera (Canon Rebel T3i) are not assigned a colorspace. Instead, all files the format IMG_XXXX.JPG/CR2 are implied sRGB and _MG_XXXX.JPG/CR2 are implied Adobe RGB ...

I was looking through some photos I took at RAF Cosford a few weeks ago, and noticed this big red area (it's a large door surround on the floor below)
In the photoshop RAW preview, it looked almost ...

My professional print lab uses a high-end Fuji Frontier machine with its own profile that the customer downloads. The prints are of exceptional quality, except for the colour gamut, particularly with ...

Comparing a kit zoom lens to a faster, 20-year-old prime it seems like the old lens produces richer, warmer color. I've noticed the same kind of comparisons elsewhere. What is the lens actually doing? ...

How do you take photographs with strong colour compositions? I have a canon 60D and Im a learner. Do you have any tips / best practices you could share?
I would like to take pictures like the ones on ...

From this answer on white balancing a LED light I understood there's a thing called Colour Rendering Index (CRI). I understand it has something to do with how well lights reproduce the sun's colour ...

I occasionally take panoramic city photos and I've noticed that certain sections of the cities have a lot of different coloured lights.
What causes these different lights? Some of these appear to be ...

Is it possible to blend 2 pictures using similar technique like dissolve but more precisely? I need to mix sources evenly - 1 pixel from the top layer second pixel from bottom layer etc. I work with ...

This isn't another "how do I get a picture to look like such-and-such-link-inserted-here in LR" question. There's a saturation (no pun intended) of these questions here. Interesting, but not general ...

I have taken a few images of (Very) red objects recently, under both flash and natural light separately, and seem to be getting a subtle, but annoying blue sheen, which is not apparent to the eye.
No ...

I have a Dell U2711 that I use for color critical work. I am wondering if anyone out there has tested multiple color correction devices and come up with a best use option for photoshop and working in ...

I've taken this picture with a Nikon D3200 using the 50mm 1.8 lens. It contains bulbs hanging from lines stretched across two structures with a building and some sky in the background.
At the top of ...

I am working in PScs5 on a EIZO color edge monitor. When I open my image photoshop displays all of the colors fine. When I change to full frame viewing, the image color becomes very muted and washed ...

Yesterday, I have been shooting photos at a christmas market -- especially a band that played there. Since everything happened in the evening and it was quite dark, I thought using RAW instead of JPEG ...

I am using a Canon 550D and I am not satisfied with the image quality that it offers. By image quality I am specifically concerned with a general feeling of better color.
I have used different lenses ...

The color of my eyes is between green and blue. I've always been curious if it's more blue or more green. People's opinions are of course different, so I would like to find it out scientifically.
How ...

I'm not a professional at all but bought a Canon Rebel T3i to capture life's moments. The color of my shots are way far off; ie., my sons navy blue and white baseball uniform comes out bright green ...

Which is part of the camera that is responsible for color depth of the images?Is it the property of the image sensor or the image processor of camera? And why do it differ from cameras?How much effect ...

Bellow is the first actual-size photo of Mars taken from the NASA's rover "Curiosity". On the NASA's website you can see other images. Despite the fact that the planet's photos are fascinating, they ...

On some astro-photography website, I come across some incredible images with caption that says "X in mapped color" such as: http://www.rc-astro.com/photo/id1066_big.html
What is mapped color? Why and ...